Year-Round Lax Hound

Ridgefield High School boys lacrosse coach Roy Colsey is staying busy during the summer by conducting three sessions of his Superstar Lacrosse Camp.
 
A four-time All-American attacker at Syracuse, where he won a pair of NCAA Division I national championships, Colsey invites young lacrosse players in the area to his camp to hone their skills in the sport.
 
Colsey became Ridgefield's coach in 2009 and also works as a physical education teacher at Chappaqua, N.Y.'s Robert E. Bell Middle School. He settled in Ridgefield to raise his family, which includes three young boys who often attend the camp.
 
For the past three years, the Yorktown, N.Y., native has combined with Rob Doer, his former teammate at Yorktown High School, to run the camp.
 
"I feel like I am busier than during the school year because Rob Doer and I are working on planning and making the camps happen and that takes a lot of work," Colsey said. 
 
Doer, a three-time All-American and two-time captain at Johns Hopkins, another perennial NCAA power, is employed as a police officer in Yorktown, N.Y., while serving as the coach of Yorktown's varsity lacrosse team.
 
The three sessions of the Superstar Lacrosse Camp were held at Ridgefield High School's Tiger Hollow July 12-16, Yorktown High School July 19-23, and the The Harvey School in Katonah, N.Y., July 26-30.  Each camp is $335 for the Senior Superstars and $225 for the Junior Superstars.  For more information about upcoming  fall and winter camp sessions visit www.superstarlacrosse.com
 
"We work with eight- and nine-year olds all the way up to kids going away to college to play lacrosse," Colsey said. "Our camps last for five days with individual instruction and group instruction. We separate the defense and offensive guys."
 
Joining Colsey and Doer are Ridgefield's assistant varsity coach Alfredo Myola and a number of former Ridgefield players. They include Mike Solazzo,  now a special education teacher and head coach at Pelham, N.Y., High School, and last season's star midfield attacker Aaron Mathias, who will be attending Amherst College in the fall.

As far as next year's Ridgefield varsity team, Colsey said the squad looks promising.

"But we have to do some rebuilding," he cautioned. "We are losing 15 seniors to graduation from last year's talented team."  "It is not like we don't have talent, but we don't know what kind of depth we will have. We will be looking for young players to step up and contribute."